No Man’s Land S-T-U
Physicality of a Road, an unending strip, passing through and used by all, that piece of land while you are on it in motion for split seconds
Defines its transient physicality, a no mans land .We are not aware of …
This work was an action created for Almadraba (the net used for tuna fishing), an exhibition centering on the Strait of Gibraltar and the social and political situation surrounding the Strait. I attempted an exchange of sand using fishing boats …
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The notion of ‘Chineseness’, consigned as it were to reside within the term ‘Asian’ in the “psycho-geography” (Morley and Robins in Ang 2001:129) of Australia’s “racial/spatial anxiety” (Ang 2001:126) invariably reverts to China as the mythic homeland whenever ‘curiosity’ …
At first, the Wall was a mark, a simple line on the street. But this line was not only on the surface level, it divided also the underworld, the tunnels of the underground.
In the night of August 12 to …
Strolling through the city, I am attracted to No Man‘s Land, to rough places apart from designed city structures. I find them in the middle of Berlin, while they seem completely out of the way. I love this rampant vegetation …
Diptych, 2003…
One of my favourite stories is that of ‘the Wandering Jew’, in which a shoemaker is condemned by Christ to walk the earth until his second coming. He grows old in the normal fashion until reaching one hundred whereupon he …
‘Taming the Beast’ – illustration by Ai Hasegawa
The Wandering Jew was condemned to walk the earth until the second coming. He roamed from land to land, an original gypsy. The name on his passport was Ashwatthama. When he arrived …
